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<p class="MsoNormal">I<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">n May 2007, Facebook unveiled the F8 Platform.&nbsp; This launch revolutionized how applications
can and would be written to integrate with Facebook&#8217;s social network.&nbsp; The F8 Platform provides several ways that
developer&#8217;s can write applications what leverage and integrate with
Facebook.&nbsp; The F8 Platform introduced the
concept of &#8220;Canvas&#8221; applications.&nbsp; Canvas
applications are web applications written by third parties that run within the
facebook platform and appear to user&#8217;s as if they are actually part of the
Facebook website.&nbsp; Canvas applications
provide different integration points for the application developer to promote
their application and leverage the social network.</span></p>


<p style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Since the original release, Facebook has continued to update
the Platform and provide new and different ways for Facebook Developers to use
the platform and the data that Facebook makes available.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>&#8220;Canvas&#8221; applications today have many different
<span style="">&nbsp;</span>integration points than the original &#8220;canvas&#8221;
applications of the F8 platform.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The
integration points that are currently available are described at <a href="http://www.metablocks.com/blog/facebook/facebook-integration-points/">http://www.metablocks.com/blog/facebook/facebook-integration-points/</a>.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In addition, Facebook has continued to expand
it Rest Apis and privacy policies to provide more data and more ways for
applications to publish the data they generate.<span style="">&nbsp;
</span>One last major innovation of the Platform is <a href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Connect">Facebook
Connect</a>.</p>


<p style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The Facebook Platform continues to evolve and change very
rapidly.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The <a href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Main_Page">Developer Wiki</a>
is the best place to get up to date information and also to learn the details
of creating your first Facebook application.</p>



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<h3 id="siteSub">From Facebook Developer Wiki</h3>
<p>F<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">acebook
Platform comprises a number of core components, including: </span></p>
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  <li>The <a title="API" href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API">API</a>, which consists
of a number of methods that let you add social context to your
applications. </li>
  <li><a title="FBML" href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/FBML">FBML</a>, Facebook Markup
Language, which allows you to integrate your application into Facebook.
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  <li><a title="XFBML" href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/XFBML">XFBML</a>, an extension
to FBML, which lets you incorporate FBML into <a title="Facebook Connect" href="/index.php/Facebook_Connect">Facebook
Connect</a> sites and <a title="Category:IFrame Applications" href="/index.php/Category:IFrame_Applications">IFrame applications</a>.
  </li>
  <li><a title="FQL" href="/index.php/FQL">FQL</a>, Facebook Query
Language, which lets you quickly and easily query for Facebook user
data without using the API. </li>
  <li><a title="FBJS" href="/index.php/FBJS">FBJS</a>, Facebook's
method for letting developers incorporate JavaScript into their
applications. </li>
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<a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Creating_a_Platform_Application">

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</span></span></span><a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" href="http://developers.facebook.com/">http://developers.facebook.com/</a><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br>
</span></span><a href="http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php?tab=principles">http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php?tab=principles</a><span style=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><br>
</span></span><a href="http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php?tab=tutorial">http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php?tab=tutorial</a><br>
<a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Creating_a_Platform_Application">http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Creating_a_Platform_Application</a><br>
<a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=431">http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=431</a><br>
<a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" href="http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Platform_Guidelines">http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Platform_Guidelines</a><br>
<a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" title="Best Practices" href="/index.php/Best_Practices">http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Best_Practices</a><br>
<a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.facebook.com/developers">http://www.facebook.com/developers</a><br>
<a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.metablocks.com/blog/facebook/facebook-integration-points/">http://www.metablocks.com/blog/facebook/facebook-integration-points/</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">
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